User:Master Strategist

Hello, I am Saving Private Ryan. I have been on Wikia for several years, starting around 2010; I decided to use the name "Saving Private Ryan" due to my love of the film of the same name, as well as to commemorate the first wiki that I was involved with. Later, I decided to work on other wikis such as the Call of Duty wiki, Grand Theft Auto wiki, the Total War wiki  and the Godfather wiki, and I started to have ideas about creating my own wiki about my ingame experiences. After years of writing and drawing battles (both historical and fake), I decided to embark on a quest to create the "Total War: Alternate Reality" wiki to be able to write down the alternate histories created in the Total War video game series. However, I discovered that it was impossible to make an alternate history wiki without incorporating real articles; when writing about Kenshin Uesugi, one must right about Japan and battles not featured in the Total War series. I decided to add pages from Samurai Warriors, another video game series set in Sengoku Japan, combining the two universes. Eventually, I decided to add real history in order to fill in the gaps, and I expanded the wiki to add articles from other game series. I decided to keep the wiki believable, avoiding most superhero, alien, or conspiracy theory stories, but I did add some surreal articles such as those of the Assassin's Creed series. Since then, I have been adding articles about real people, countries, battles, events, and other encyclopedic articles, and the wiki has rapidly expanded. Although I understood that Wikia was meant to be a collaborative database, I believed that Wikia was the only way for me to create a Wikipedia-like website with my video game experiences, with real history, and without Wikipedia's strict rules.

I live in the US state of New Jersey, and I am not far from New York City, one of my favorite places to visit. I am a huge fan of realistic video games (especially open world games), historical movies, music from the 1950s until the early 1990s, television from the 1980s, crime shows from the 2010s, Dorling Kindersley visual books (such as those on wars (both major wars and a book about all wars up to 2009), battles, commanders, general history, and weapons), computers, and History, Spanish, and Drama classes in school.

I come from a diverse background, with my father being of German, French, and Polish descent and my mother being of Chilean, Spanish, Mapuche, and converso Jewish (Spanish Jews who converted to Christianity) descent. While English is my first and preferred language, I can speak and understand Spanish fairly well, and I can understand some French (having helped one of my friends study by reading French words and having him translate). I am not deeply religious, but I do identify as a non-observant Christian, and I am a fan of the Jesuits; however, I am also proud of my partial Jewish descent, and I also find the religion of Islam an interesting and beautiful faith.

I am a proponent of social democracy, supporting the reforming of the capitalist system to ensure that hard-working people are paid fairly. I am friends with some Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) activists, but I was never an all-out communist, instead agreeing with the women's rights, black rights/civil rights, LGBT rights, religious freedom, and other social justice aspects of its theory. I do agree with much of Karl Marx's views, and I am a staunch anti-fascist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist. I supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election, and I am a supporter of the US Democratic Party, while I sympathize with the UK Labor Party, Socialist Party of France, and Socialist Party of Chile, among other Socialist International parties.

I hope that this user page will help you in understanding me, and I hope that any of you reading this website's articles will enjoy, and perhaps learn something. Enjoy the website! Saving Private Ryan (talk) 16:43, August 23, 2016 (UTC)